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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Subject: Re: Inq: Language and Reified Execution Environment
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In message
<47c0c73d-898f-492c-9f56-bbbba7259a5d@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com>, 
Tom wrote:

> There are a large number of applications whose purpose is to accept data,
> transform it, move it somewhere else and show it to users.

That’s what Perl was developed for.